Word: slews
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slew of choices is dizzying. The only conceivable decision is not to decide at all, but to delegate. Fortunately, a primly-coiffed associate is always ready to help...
Because the plates carry the code of each travel agency, businesses are being billed for a slew of stolen tickets, many of them to expensive locations in Central and South America. One agency was debited $47,000 for tickets taken last June. The local chapter of the American Society of Travel Agents has asked airlines to install $1,500 computer scanners at boarding gates to identify the hot tickets. Three weeks ago, when thieves held up Van Nuys travel agent Alfredo Vaca for the second time, he refused to surrender any more blanks, convinced that the losses would...
Some preliminary studies and a slew of lawsuits contend that living near electrical power lines causes everything from cancer to miscarriage. Even your toaster, some say, could be a culprit...
Only last week, when--in an effort to counter the slew of peace initiatives proposed by Soviet President Michail Gorbachev--Bush unveiled a well-received plan at the NATO summit designed to achieve substantial cuts in conventional arms and troop levels, did the president provide us with a clear glimpse of his view of the future of superpower relations...
...most part the essays are enjoyable--an honest and profound look at America, at human success and failure and at growing up. They portray an era and are perhaps more meaningful than the slew of backward-looking books that vomit up recent social history...